Uniper has awarded front-end engineering design (FEED) competition contracts for its combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power station Connah’s Quay to Technip Energies and Worley.
The FEED phase of the project commenced at the end of December 2024 and is expected to take around a year to complete. The two contractors will design and submit development plans and compete to be selected as the final contractor for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to build the plant.

Formal statutory consultation on plans for the new power station, ‘Connah’s Quay Low Carbon Power’, closed on 19 November and a Development Consent Order (DCO) application is due to be submitted later this year. Uniper is working towards a potential capacity of around 1.1GW up to a maximum of 1.38GW, developed in two phases. Phase one could potentially be operational by 2030.
Uniper says the new plant would be fitted with carbon capture technology, which would
connect into nearby CO2 transport and storage infrastructure as part of the HyNet industrial cluster. Captured CO2 would be transported to permanent offshore storage facilities in repurposed depleted offshore gas fields.